International News

Wednesday 17 January 2017

Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis, in his first formal speech in Chile, asked forgiveness from those who were sexually abused by priests.

Addressing government authorities and members of the country's diplomatic corps Jan. 16, the pope expressed his ‘pain and shame at the irreparable damage caused to children by some ministers of the church.’

Tuesday 16 January 2018

Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be the first without Sister Mary Antona Ebo, the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.